GEOGRAPHY2

Ms. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Europe as a Queen
Munster, 1588
Europe’s Latitude v. US
Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude & Area with the United States
Satellite View of Europe
3,800 square miles
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Continents by Size (sq. km.)
Europe: A Peninsula of Peninsulas?
OR
A Peninsula of Asia?
Europe: An Asian Peninsula?
Northern Peninsulas
Jutland Peninsula
Scandinavian Peninsula
Southern Peninsulas
Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
AnatoleanPeninsula
Crimean
Peninsula
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Scandinavian Pen.
Jutland
Pen.
Iberian Pen.
Italian Pen.
Balkan Pen.
Anatolean Pen.
Crimean Pen.
Peloponnesian Pen.
What’s
the
answer
??
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Mediterranean Sea
North
Sea
Atlantic
Ocean
Baltic
Sea
Black
Sea
AegeanSea
Adriatic Sea
Tyrrhenian
Sea
Bay of
Biscay
Strait of
Gibraltar
Dardanelles
Strait
Arctic
Ocean
English Channel
Caspian
Sea
The Mediterranean Sea: Mare Nostrum
2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide
“Crossroads of 3 Continents”
Caesarea on the
Israeli coast
Strait of Gibraltar & the “Pillars of Hercules”
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Danube R.
Seine R.
Rhine R.
Loire R.
Po R.
Tiber R.
Tagus R.
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Oder R.
Vistula R.
Dnieper R.
Volga R.
Don R.
Ebro R.
The Danube River
1770 miles
The Danube River
Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria,
Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the
Ukraine.
Where Buda & Pest Meet
Biking Along the Danube
The Volga River
The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.
The Volga River
The river is so
polluted that the
sturgeon catch has
been decreased by
60%.


Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major rivers??
Capitals on the Rivers (1)
Paris, right bank of the Seine
London on the Thames
Prague on the Vltava
Budapest on the Danube
Capitals on the Rivers (2)
Berlin on the Spree
Moscow on the Moscow River
Rome on the Tiber
Vienna on the Danube
What’s
the
answer
??
Answer:
They are
Europe’s lifeline!
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Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Apennines Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Carpathian Mts.
Caucasus Mts.
Ural Mts.
Mt. Etna ^
Mt. Vesuvius ^
Mt. Olympus ^
Elevation
Alps
Carpathians
Caucasus
Urals
Pyrennes
Apennines
The Alps
Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and
parts of Italy and France.
Mt. Blanc in the Alps
Highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet
The Caucasus Mountains
The origin of the
word Caucasian.
Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
Home of Vlad Tepeš, the
Drakul (“Count Dracula”)
Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.
1500 miles
The Ural Mountains
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Northern European Plain
Steppes
Siberian Lowlands
The BENELUX Countries
Belgium

Netherlands

Luxembourg
Holland’s Dikes
Amsterdam’s Canals
The Netherlands:


The “Dagger” Pointing at the Heart of Britain!
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North
Sea
Atlantic
Ocean
Baltic
Sea
Black
Sea
AegeanSea
Adriatic Sea
Tyrrhenian
Sea
Bay of
Biscay
Strait of
Gibraltar
Dardanelles
Strait
Arctic
Ocean
English Channel
Caspian
Sea
Danube R.
Seine R.
Rhine R.
Loire R.
Po R.
Tiber R.
Tagus R.
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Oder R.
Vistula R.
Dnieper R.
Volga R.
Don R.
Ebro R.
Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Apennines Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Carpathian Mts.
Caucasus Mts.
Ural Mts.
Mt. Etna ^
Mt. Vesuvius ^
Mt. Olympus ^
Siberian Lowlands
Northern European Plain
Steppes
Scandinavian Pen.
Jutland
Pen.
Iberian Pen.
Crimean Pen.
Balkan Pen.
Anatolean Pen.
Peloponnesian Pen.
Italian Pen.
10,000 BCE – Ice Age
Norwegian Fjords
Glaciers
cut deep
valleys in
the ocean
during the
Ice Age.
Earthquake Zones
Reykjavik, Iceland:
“The Youngest Oldest Country”
Volcanoes
Hot Springs
Geysers
Mediterranean Islands
Generally rugged
& mountainous.
Mediterranean
Sea so polluted
(will take 1000
years to clean up).
Sardinia
Cyprus
Malta
Mt. Etna, Sicily
An active
volcano
Mt. Vesuvius, Italy
1944 eruption
Pompeii,
79 CE
Herculaneum, 79 CE
Eastern Europe
Russia’s 10 Time Zones
Siberia --> Permafrost
Average temperatures of January
vary from 0 to -50°C, and in
July from 1 to 25°C

150,000,000 population.
A former “gulag”
Soviet prison camp.
Lake Baikal, Siberia
The oldest and deepest
lake in the world.
20% of the world’s total
unfrozen water supply.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Completed in 1905.
Trans-Siberian Railroad
The main line runs 5,785 miles.
Europe’s Latitude v. US
Climate
Average Annual Precipitation
Europe’s Natural Regions
The North European Plain
The Northern European Plain --> An Invasion Route into Asia (& Vice Versa?)
Steppes: “Soviet” Breadbasket
The Steppes
25% of the old
Soviet Union’s
food supply.
Major Regional Divisions of the Former U. S. S. R.
Chernozen Soil
Germany’s Black Forest
Germany’s Black Forest
Tundra: The Not-So-Barren Land
Below the Arctic Circle
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Agricultural Activity
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Major
Industrial
Resources
Oil Export Routes in the Caucasus Area
Major
Environmental
Disasters
& Pollution
Problems
Acid Rain
World Population by Continents
Population Density
[People Per Square Mile]
Population
Distribution
Population
Growth
Members of the Indo-European Language Family
Major
Religious
Groups
in
Europe